At least 73,500 sheltering in dozens of schools. And overnight in israel, Palestinian Militants targeted southern towns like ashkelon with a barrage of rocket attacks. Heres more of what we know at this hour. The Israeli Military says more than 700 israelis have been killed. More than 250 bodies have been found dead at the site of a Music Festival in southern israel. The Gaza Ministry of health says 413 palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza, including 78 children and 41 women. Israel says it is still trying to regain full control of eight areas where hamas militants infiltrated following saturdays attack. The number of israeli civilians and soldiers taken hostage has been put at 100 by the Israeli Embassy to the us, though some have been freed. In northern israel, hezbollah rockets targeted three military positions with israel responding with barrages of artillery into southern lebanon. At a meeting of the un security council, the organisations middle east envoy
Conservative. Youre also pretty much a lifelong campaigner for the environment. Right now, does it feel like those two commitments are incompatible . Oh, no. Theyre just temporarily in abeyance because the government is so fixated on trying to do something to rescue the next election, that theyre trying to put a difference between their reaching net zero in a way which doesnt hurt people, and blaming the opposition for wanting to reach net zero in a way which does hurt people. I think its a pretty barmy way of dealing with it. But in the end, of course, its also damaging, notjust to the earth, but the fact is, its very bad for the cost of living, because the sort of things that mr sunak wants to do will hold up reducing energy prices, getting things to people in a cheaper way. But rishi sunak s entire logic is that what he is doing by adapting the way in which the uk is committing itself to the net zero target of 2050, what hes doing is protecting the interests of, as he puts it, Worki
Septembers data is expected to show record crossings. In august, however, Us Border Patrol apprehended just over 181,000 people along the southern border. Thats up almost 50,000 injust one month, when you comparejuly s number of about 132,000. And mexicos president , Andres Manuel lopez 0brador, said that last week alone, 10,000 people arrived at the border every day. Addressing a News Conference in mexico city, the us secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, said the Biden Administration had little choice but to go ahead with the wall project, saying the funding was already in place. There is no new Administration Policy with respect to the portable. From day one, this administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer. We spoke earlier to republican congressman ralph norman, who supports a wall but is heavily critical of the Biden Administrations immigration policy. In 2020, his platform was not building the wall anymore. According tojoe biden, it is not a